NASA to Hunt for Water on the Moon

October 15, 2014 12:30 AM

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NASA is making efforts to devise ways to retrieve water on moon so that the goal to colonize moon can be achieved. NASA scientists are working on two strategies aimed at examining and mining this most precious natural resource.

The two projects - Lunar Flashlight and the Resource Prospector Mission – are slated for launch in 2017 and 2018. “If you’re going to have humans on the moon and you need water for drinking, breathing, rocket fuel, anything you want, it’s much, much cheaper to live off the land than it is to bring e...